The World Only Spins Forward - The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler; Dan Kois
36.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The oral history of Angels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it--a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and pure "theater magic" (NPR).A STONEWALL BOOK AWARDS HONOR BOOKWhen Tony Kushner's Angels in America hit Broadway in 1993, it ...Show more
Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending--balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced ...Show more
Difficult Women - A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search f ...Show more
Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea by Charlotte Runcie
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspir ...Show more
The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it?To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy--we have to change everything. One of the seminal thinkers of the program that helped ignite the US Green New Deal campaign, Ann Pettifor explains how we can aff ...Show more
Ahuman Manifesto by Patricia MacCormack; Rosi Braidotti (Series edited by)
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the "ahuman". An alternative to "posthuman" thought, the term ...Show more
LikeWar - The Weaponization of Social Media by P. W. Singer; Emerson T. Brooking
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Two defense experts investigate the present and future of conflict in a worldwhere the front lines are only a click away.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - The Classic Guide to Crowd Psychology, Financial Folly and Surprising Superstition by Charles Mackay
59.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Charles MacKay's groundbreaking examination of a staggering variety of popular delusions, crazes and mass follies is presented here in full with no abridgements. The text concentrates on a wide variety of phenomena which had occurred over the centuries prior to this book's publication in 1841. Mackay be ...Show more
On Aunty (On Series) by Jonathan Holmes
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: On Ser.
Australia's public broadcaster, 'Aunty', is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble: budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals. Meanwhile audiences are deserting broadcast TV and radio. What is the ABC's pl ...Show more
On Travel (On Series) by Tony Wheeler
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: On Ser.
Tony Wheeler, travel addict, Lonely Planet founder and intrepid traveller over five decades, has discovered that the more you travel, the more extraordinary the world becomes. His enthusiasm for trekking the globe is contagious: it is impossible to read On Travel without scouring for deals, searching fo ...Show more
On Us (On Series) by Mark Scott
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: On Ser.
How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Usoffers a few more on choice in a concentrated media wor ...Show more
Mother - An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and cari ...Show more